About Jesus

There is a man, named
Job, in the Old Testament that once wished that there was
someone who could be a bridge between him and God-someone who could
put his hand on both Job and God and mediate between them.
But,sadly, Job says, no such person exists who is both a
representative of people and a representative of God.

This is the crux of the problem in salvation. Even if
there were a perfect human that person still could not represent
God because humans are created beings and God is the Creator.

That's why when God announced that He Himself would be the
Savior, it was something beyond anything that anyone had imagined
up to that point. God declared that He would take on humanity, in
the person of Jesus, so that He Himself could represent both God
and mankind.

Jesus is also fully God. He did things that only God could do
and He Himself claimed on a number of occasions that He was God.

Because Jesus is God-man, He can be the person that Job wished
for-someone who can put His hand on our shoulders (because He is
human) and put His hand on God's shoulder (because He is God) and
mediate between the two of us.

And, of course, the biggest problem in our relationship with God
is that we fall under His anger because of our sin. We noted that God's anger is a natural expression of His love. But God said
that He would become like us, in Jesus, so that we could have a mediator between us and Himself.
But even that isn't where God's salvation ends. Even if Jesus is
the perfect mediator and has died for our sins, we are completely
unable to
live life any differently. If the cross were the end of the
story, then we might have hope for after we die, but our
lives here and now would remain utterly miserable.

That's one of the primary points of the resurrection of Jesus. Because of
all this, Jesus becomes the only hope for us and those who reject
Jesus, reject all that He has accomplished for them. God wants our
trust because that's the only thing a loving relationship can be
grounded on. But when we reject what Jesus has done for us, we
stand before God with nothing more than our good
deeds. He's not looking for our deeds, He's looking for
our faith.